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Something, Somewhere: The Struggle to Create Space for Asian Americans in the Performing Arts
Upon arriving at Yale in 2020, Sam Ahn, who has always been interested in theater, couldn’t help but notice the absence of a prominent Asian American theater community at Yale. Now a junior, Ahn spends his Friday evenings in a…
Lux et Veritas?
In 2021, Victor Ashe ’67, former Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee and American Ambassador to Poland, had his heart set on joining the Yale Corporation’s Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is the governing body that holds primary power over…
Cause for Alarm: Swatting at Yale and Beyond
It was the Monday night before classes were set to begin for Yale’s spring semester. Many of the students living in Bingham Hall, one of the first-year dorms on Yale’s Old Campus, had made an effort to sleep early in…
Between Yale and Net Zero: Yale’s Power Plants Pose a Climate Challenge
“We are driving off a cliff and need radical change,” said Chris Schweitzer, the head of the New Haven Climate Movement, a grassroots climate justice organization. “Yale has two massive power plants, each running off natural gas, that each produce…
Oversubscribed: Yale’s Residential Colleges Struggle with Record Class Sizes
This year, Eliza Lord ’24 is a junior in Davenport College. For the first time since she started at Yale, Lord will spend the entire academic year living within Davenport’s walls. Her suite, a well-lit configuration of four singles and…
Hard Soil: Megachurches Work to Evangelize New England
Lisa, a 58-year-old transit officer, grew up in the Catholic tradition. When she moved to New Haven eight years ago, she bounced around from church to church, but none really felt like home. Then, Lisa found Vox, an evangelical megachurch…
Strengthening a Sanctuary: A Connecticut Abortion Fund Prepares for a Post-Roe Nation
In 2016, Jessica Puk had a second-trimester abortion for a wanted pregnancy that was not viable. She described it as “one of the worst days of my life.” “It was a terrible loss,” Puk said, “But I was very, very…
The Grand Occupation: Confronting Crime in Fair Haven Through Community Organizing
On a Tuesday evening in early September 2021, Karen Dubois-Walton ’89 got a text from her friend Sarah Miller ’03. Someone had been shot in their Fair Haven neighborhood in a parking lot just down the street from DuBois-Walton’s home….